Rebut or retract: A public challenge to Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz’s response to his derisive reception at ‘Post’ conference in New York late underscores bankruptcy of “The Case for Two States”.
- I have now joined this distinguished company of people who get booed for advocating territorial compromise in the interest of peace. That’s why I will no longer lend my support to ‘far-right pep’ rallies of the kind I spoke at last week.
– Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post, May 5
In many ways, Alan Dershowitz’s somewhat puerile and petulant response to the derisive reception he was given by the audience at The Jerusalem Post Second Annual Conference in New York late last month vividly underscores just how bankrupt “The Case for Two States” has become.
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The Muslim Brotherhood and our military and the FBI
Our national defense and intelligence training is being controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers. (Recall the charges brought by 5 members of Congress led by Michele Bachmann in June 2012 that Muslim Brotherhood operatives had infiltrated our national security apparatus at the highest levels). As you will clearly see in the video footage below, the Muslim Brotherhood has successfully waged a campaign to completely SABOTAGE our war effort and PREVENT our military and intelligence personnel from learning about the enemy threat doctrine – ISLAM.
Obama’s Betrayal of Islamic Democracy
The mishandling of Benghazi undermined a prominent Muslim moderate.
A significant point made in riveting testimony by Gregory Hicks, the State Department’s former deputy chief of mission in Libya, has largely been missed in the coverage of Wenesday’s Benghazi hearing. It is worth highlighting, not least because doing so illuminates the depth of the Obama administration’s depravity.
In its assiduous effort to defraud the American people, for 2012-campaign purposes, into believing that the Benghazi massacre was provoked by an anti-Islamic Internet video — rather than having been a coordinated jihadist attack that undermined President Obama’s claim to have decimated al-Qaeda — the administration betrayed its self-proclaimed commitment to establishing democracy in Islamic countries.
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Truth is the best disinfectant
The Wiesenthal Centre issued a major study on the BDS movement and published a major report. Here is the executive summary.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Boycott/Divest/Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel was formally launched in 2005, but really began gathering momentum as a result of the Second Intifada of 2000 and the UN’s World Conference Against Racism in 2001.
This Report documents and dissects the BDS’ impact across a broad front of battlefields in the western world. These include economic struggles in corporate boardrooms and among trade unions, BDS’ “academic jihad” against Israel on campuses, the pressure on entertainment and cultural figures to cancel appearances in Israel, and efforts to gain support for BDS from important religious institutions.
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The dirty little secret about Israel’s Arabs
What “respectable” organizations — including Jewish ones — and the international media are trying their hardest to cover up
In 2010, Cpl. Eleanor Joseph became the first female Arab combat soldier in the Israel Defense Force. Joseph, a Christian Arab told Israel’s daily Ma’ariv that her good luck charm is a drawing of the Star of David with the caption: “I have no other land, even when my ground is burning.” Her commander drew it for her.
Joseph explained, “It is a phrase that strengthens me. Every time I experience hardship, I read it. Because I was born here. The people I love live here: my parents, my friends. This is a Jewish state? Yes, it is. But it’s also my country. I can’t imagine living in any other place. I think every person should serve in the army. You live here? You make your home here? Then go defend your country. What does it matter that I’m an Arab?”
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The US-Israel Win-Win, Mutually-Beneficial, Two-Way Street
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #179, May 10, 2013 http://bit.ly/197mlxd
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #179, May 10, 2013 http://bit.ly/197mlxd
While struggling to turn around an expanding (5%) budget deficit, Israel sustains its unique role as a pipeline of commercial, defense and homeland security technologies to the US and the Free World. Israeli technologies, shared with the US industry, have enhanced the US employment, research & development and exports.
1. Facebook about to acquire Israel’s Waze for $1BN. In January, Waze turned down Facebook’s offer of $500MN (Israel Hayom, May 10, 2013). Warren Buffett completed acquisition of Israel’s Iscar – $2BN for the remaining 20% of Iscar. $4BN were paid for 80% (Globes, May 1). NYC’s KKR Private Equity acquired (from NYC’s Warburg-Pincus Ventures) 75% of Israel’s Alliance Tires Group for $500MN (Globes, April 15). Israel’s Prolor was merged into Miami, FL’s Opko for $480MN (Globes, April 25). San Jose, CA’s Avago Technologies acquired Israel’s Cyoptics for $400MN (Globes, April 12). China’s Fosun Pharma acquired Israel’s Alma Lasers for $240MN (TechTime, April 29). J.P. Morgansold 21% of Israel’s CaesarStone (held by Israel’s Tene’ Investment Fund) for $170MN, on NASDAQ(Globes, April 15).
As the Left sees us
Targeting Stephen Hawking and Dustin Hoffman: Right-wing ‘pro-Israel’ advocacy as hate speech
Increasingly, the rabid far-right ‘pro-Israel’ camp is carrying out repulsive, hate-filled attacks on Jews whose most cherished wish is to see a stronger, more democratic Israel. It is time to take a stand.
By Bradley Burston, HAARETZ
By Bradley Burston, HAARETZ
Professor Steven Plaut teaches business finance and economics at the University of Haifa. He also writes articles, pamphlets and blog posts intended to defend Israel.
This is what he offered in defense of Israel this week, in response to physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott next month’s Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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